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Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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Digital Literacy Curriculum From Microsoft

 

Digital Literacy is an area that is receiving a lot of attention these days as we come to grips with the idea that almost everyone is an information worker in some way or another. I recently learned that Microsoft has a digital literacy curriculm available. It includes 5 units (each 2-3 hours long) and a 30-60 minute online test. It is free and available here.

The Digital Literacy Curriculum consists of five [units]:

Computer Basics

The Internet and World Wide Web

Productivity Programs

Computer Security and Privacy

Digital Lifestyles

Each course has an e-learning module and an assessment. You can also take the Certificate Test, which covers topics from all five courses. If you pass the Certificate Test, you can print out a personalized Digital Literacy Certificate.

This looks like it will be useful in a variety of educational situations.

 

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Published Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:45 AM by Alfred Thompson

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# re: Digital Literacy Curriculum From Microsoft @ Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:43 AM

The online version works only with Internet Explorer - and I presume the .exe version works only with Windows. It calls my lack of IE an "Error".

Online learning as marketing. That's MS has learned.

Stephen Downes

# re: Digital Literacy Curriculum From Microsoft @ Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:19 AM

Stuff I've gotten from Sun, Adobe and others required software from them. People use the tools they have.

Money for things that are given away for free is hard to come by and that is the main reason one sees versions for just one operating system.

I agree that it would be better if the online versions worked with other browsers. All browsers have some features that are designed to make development of applications that run on them easier to develop. People use those features to save time and money and not necessarily to be exclusive. I run into sites all the time that require Java for example. Should I insist that they use something else?

Alfred Thompson

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